The 2026 Australian Supercars season is shaping up to be an interesting one, to say the least. General Motors’ homologation team, Triple Eight, announced that it’s ditching the automaker for its crosstown rival, Ford, at the end of the 2025 racing season. Understandably, GM isn’t happy, and it might not share its current engine supplier with Ford when the time comes.
According to a report from Speedcafe, Triple Eight is on track to become Ford’s new homologation team when it begins fielding Ford Mustang race cars. The team was originally expected to oversee the motorsport program’s aero development, while KRE Race Engines, which supplies Chevy engines to the team, would expand its operations to include building Ford engines.
Ford and Triple Eight are on the same page, agreeing that KRE can run both the Chevy and Ford engine programs concurrently, but GM is holding out. If the three entities can’t come to an agreement, Triple Eight must find an alternative source for its engines. It may turn to Motorsports Powertrains, a facility currently owned and operated by Ford team Dick Johnson Racing.
“For Gen3 there was no process as such, it was just that both of the HTs had relationships with existing engine suppliers,” Supercars technical chief Tim Edwards told Speedcafe. “We’ve never been in this position before, so it’s something we’ve got to work through. It’s very high on our agenda to work through that.”
In the absence of Triple Eight, GM is searching for its next homologation team, but its position in the Supercars championship is up in the air. Chevy teams compete with Chevy Camaro-based race cars, an interesting decision considering the Camaro has been discontinued (and wasn’t available in Oceania for very long, either). However, Jess Bala, Managing Director, GM Australia and New Zealand, recently reaffirmed the automaker’s dedication to the series, saying, “We are, as a company, committed to Supercars here and the industry and the racing series moving forward.”
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I’m a motorsport fan but why are GM “Committed to Supercars?” They don’t make Camaros and their Australian range is laughable. They don’t sell into RHD markets, either, with their constant ‘full commitment’ followed by surrender over the last forty years – they’ve just sacked their only RHD Corvette dealer here in the UK with no signs of a replacement! Who would consider buying a C8 with their track record on even short term support? What’s the point in continuing with this series?
It is odd seeing a Camaro around the track that you can’t buy in Australia, but GMSV has been a consistent top 30 monthly manufacturer since launching in December 2020, and 2024 was it’s best year since launch. \
So it’s not really surprising why GMSV and GM “wouldn’t” be committed into Supercars going forward. As to a replacement model for the superseded Camaro to run in Supercars in the future? Your guess is a good as mine.
Note the yearly sales results for GMSV in Australia:.
2020 – 36
2021 – 2,118
2022 – 2,614
2023 – 3,703
2024 – 4,303